Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...

We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just) entitled to the new paternity leave took longer to have...

Fathers in the Nordic countries were among the first in the world to gain the right to paid parental leave. The overall uptake has however been low, despite various attempts to increase it. This paper compares characteristics of fathers in four Nordic countries, to identify important...

The article deals with the position of the child’s father in labour relations. The comparative analysis of legislation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia is based not only on labour law, but also on social security law and anti-discrimination law. The authors aim to point out the difference in...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Caregiving Fathers and the Fatherhood Forfeit -- Chapter 3. Think Child- Think Mum -- Chapter 4. Support Available- Subject to Negotiation -- Chapter 5. Social Mistreatment of Caregiving Fathers -- Chapter 6. Caregiving Fathers During Covid-19 -- Chapter 7....

The German parental leave reform of 2007 created a new incentive for men to take parental leave by introducing "daddy months": 2 months of well-remunerated leave exclusively reserved for fathers. Against the backdrop of the reform, this study examines how fathers' uptake of parental leave...